A home-grown gin company in Gower has found a new venue for a distillery which it hopes will treble its production capacity. The Gower Gin Company plans to convert a stone barn at a farm near Pilton Green, between Scurlage and Rhossili, in order to produce its own gin and others it makes for operators across the UK.
It now has planning permission from Swansea Council to convert the small barn, but joint director and owner Andrew Brooks said there was still some way to go. Mr Brooks said he appreciated the support from the council, and that if all went to plan new jobs would be created as well as an empty stone barn at Paviland Farm being brought back to life.
"There were no other suitable places in Gower that we could find," he said. Mr Brooks and his wife Sian started the company in 2017 and have been distilling gin and hosting taster sessions in a bike shed at their home in Port Eynon ever since. They forage botanicals - used to flavour gin - locally. You can get more Gower news and other story updates by subscribing to our newsletters here.
